"We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was"

--

Bernard Malamud

#Sick Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Chickens Quotes

“I've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen closely to our inner voice.”
“Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.”
“Grandma Mazur stood two feet back from my mother. "I gotta get me a pair if those," she said, eyeballing my shorts. "I've still got pretty good legs, you know." She raised her skirt and looked down at her knees. "What do you think? You think I'd look good in them biker things?" Grandma Mazur had knees like doorknobs.”
“It matters not what you fight but what you fight for.”

Source : David Petersen (2009). “Mouse Guard Volume 2: Winter 1152”, p.71, Simon and Schuster
“I'm not one to run around with different girls. I like someone that makes me feel good and that I can make feel good.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
“The first thing Julian wanted to do in life, well, before he wanted to be an artist and then a musician, was to be a chef. He'd come home and say 'Why don't you bake cakes like my friends' mothers?' I'd say, 'Oh, Julian, go out and buy a Mary Baker cake mix and do it yourself!' That started him off! By the time he was 13, he'd disappear into the kitchen whenever we had visitors and emerge with beautiful canapes. Now he thinks nothing of cooking for ten or 15 people, and he does it so calmly.”

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